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Mercury has stationed direct—thank god—because his retrograde was not easy on our podcast. Between Tess falling ill and a series of technological mishaps, we’ve been off the air for a few weeks. Unfortunately, Mercury’s hijinks aren’t quite resolved yet. We had a problem with this recording that forced me to use the backup audio, so there’s a bit of fuzz in the background. Hopefully, everything will be back to our normal standards and schedule next week.
Wishing a very Merry Christmas, to all who celebrate, Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Year! Tess and I will be recording our 2026 year-ahead podcast soon, so look out for that around the new year.
I am offering a 10% discount on all gift readings until Christmas day. These can be purchased here: https://www.skiesofgrace.com/services. You will receive a gift certificate that you can print for a card or forward via email to your gift recipient.
If you’re interested in Theresa’s re-parenting practice, be sure to join the free orientation Zoom on 12/30 at 6 PM. Read more about it here.
Paid subscribers, look out for a gift in your inboxes from me and Theresa over the next couple of days. We are so appreciative of your support for our work and look forward to continuing to grow in community over the next year.
with love,
Christina & Theresa
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Happy Saturday! I hope everyone had an enjoyable and peaceful holiday week.
I’m getting the podcast out a little later than I’d hoped. We recorded the episode on Monday, Nov. 25, the evening of Mercury’s retrograde station. But luckily, most of what we discussed pertains to the astrology of next week, beginning with the new moon in Sagittarius tomorrow morning, Sunday, Dec. 1.
The first week of December is deep and tense. The Sun and Mercury form a sign-based T-square with Jupiter and Saturn, just as Mars slows to a frustrating halt in Leo and begins his long-anticipated retrograde. Try to move slowly and carefully in the weeks to come; details are prone to slip through the cracks as we lock into what may feel like unresolvable conflicts within and outside of ourselves. Mercury’s cazimi on Thursday offers a moment of inspiration, pointing to the deeper why behind our efforts. Try to listen and hold on to this message as Mars fuels our frustration with a barrage of unconquerable seeming obstacles. This is a season for slow, deliberate actions and setting our sights on long-term goals and foundations. Despite what Mars may feel about his current predicament, all is not futile, and we will reap the benefits of what we sow—just not until later.
If you’d like to look at the upcoming year with us, Theresa and I still have slots available for our 2025 year-ahead readings. Book here. We are offering our paid subscribers a 10% discount on this reading, so if that’s you, use the code MerryMerry at check-out to access this discount.
At the end of this episode, we discuss the reparenting Sadhana that Tess will be leading for all of 2025. This is an entirely free/donation-based offering. If you’d like to sign up, email Theresa to get on the list: [email protected].
Read more about the 2025 reparenting Sadhana.
Look out for a missive from me soon with live dates and offerings for December.
With love,
Christina & Theresa
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Tomorrow, Nov 15th, Theresa and I will hold a live session on Zoom at 4 p.m.
All are welcome.
Please consider this a safe space to ask questions, process feelings, and receive support as we navigate these unsettling times.
The Moon has just moved into Taurus, and the Full Moon will occur tomorrow midday. This lunation has a disruptive feeling, conjoining Uranus, which brings the potential for surprises. It may also describe the general atmosphere: a shaking of foundations and an underlying uncertainty about what lies ahead. Uranus loves to surprise, disrupt, and break free, but like all the planetary intelligences, its allegiances are neutral, offering energy for anyone to embody according to their nature. Saturn stations direct tomorrow in Pisces, so expect what Uranus unmoors to slip into murky, unnavigable waters.
I hope this episode is helpful.
As always, we're here if you have any questions, and I hope to see some of you at the live session tomorrow.
A Few Links:
2025 Year Ahead Readings with Christina & Theresa: Book Here
2025 Inner Currents Reparenting Practice (email Theresa to sign up— [email protected]): Read More Here
Sane news from Heather Cox Richardson: Read Here
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With Love,
Christina & Theresa
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We’re back! Tomorrow morning is the long-awaited Mars-Pluto opposition. We’ve been feeling the build-up to this aspect for many weeks, so if this weekend feels incredibly heavy or charged, give yourself tons of grace and know that the skies are adding significant pressure to the collective psyche.
This is a short episode, and I apologize for not managing to post it sooner; it was an unusually busy week for me.
This episode focuses primarily on the Mars-Pluto opposition, as well as the upcoming retrograde station of Mars, and how both aspects may color our experiences of the upcoming election and the post-election sociopolitical landscape here in the United States. We will be back next week with a comprehensive November astrology update!
Wishing you all as much peace as possible over this weekend and the potentially tumultuous days to come. Sunday is a dramatic day for Mars and Pluto, but there is also a Venus-Jupiter opposition across the Gemini-Sagittarius axis, so for all our mutable sign beloveds out there, take some time to soak in whatever sweetness these two have in store for you amid the Mars-Pluto tension.
A reminder that Theresa and I are offering year-ahead readings for 2025. They are available to book November through January for a limited number of spots. All the information can be found here.
If you are interested in checking out the writer we spoke about at the end of the podcast, her name is Stephanie Harrison, and her book is called New Happy. More information here.
with Love, Christina & Theresa
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Starting off with an apology because I was hoping to get this episode out to everyone over the weekend! We spend a considerable amount of time talking about Thursday’s disruptive full moon in Aries, and I believe we are already feeling the build-up to that lunation. The moon has just moved into Aries as I’ve been writing these episode notes, so we are off to the races. Take special care of yourselves tomorrow and Thursday. Offer yourself tons of love and patience. Do what you can to calm the nervous system and buffer your reactions to yourself and others with grace.
At the end of this episode, Theresa announces a group sadhana and healing practice that she will be offering through Inner Currents next year aimed at healing wounds and traumas incurred in the first year of life. I am really excited about this offering, and we will be providing more information as we get closer. But if anyone is already exploring healing work around reparenting, this is an amazing and free offering to support those efforts and can easily complement existing work without adding too much additional stress or commitment. We are encouraging anyone interested in this to check it out and sign up.
Theresa and I will be offering joint year-ahead readings again for 2025. These were super fun last year, and we are excited to be offering them again. We will be booking readings from November 2024 to January 2025, and they will be available to purchase through my website by the end of this week. Look out for an email soon with the booking information.
Lastly, we have to take a two-week hiatus from the podcast as Theresa is traveling with her family and I will be helping care for my parents as my dad recovers from surgery.
Wishing you all a peaceful October, and we will get a new episode out sometime around Halloween.
Much love to you all,
Christina & Theresa
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We are back with a new episode, and I’m happy to report that I think we’re heading into a relatively bright week. The second week of October feels like a hopeful reminder of our big-picture plans and an opportunity to receive a bit of nurturance from the great benefic as he stations retrograde.
In this episode, we outline the week ahead and project into some of the more challenging aspects of the upcoming fall and winter. We discuss the ongoing opposition between Mars and Pluto, which is baked into the DNA of this Mars retrograde cycle. Theresa and I both feel this configuration is worthy of our continued attention and may be an area where offering extra support could be beneficial. As a result, we’ve both decided to offer special readings for the Mars-Pluto oppositions.
Mars and Pluto will make a series of oppositions over the next 6 months, likely casting a wide net of transformative demands on our lives. I expect this energy to feel quite dominant throughout much of November and December and even linger into the first four months of 2025. If you’d like more information about how this ongoing Mars-Pluto dynamic might impact your life, along with some ideas on how to prepare for and work with the transit, I’m offering a special discounted reading on the subject. Theresa will also be available at an extremely reduced rate for further counseling, with tangible ideas on meeting this energy as an opportunity for growth and healing.
You can book a reading with me here: Mars+Pluto Reading
The cost will be $65 for 30 minutes (or $40 for paid subscribers, DM me for a discount code).
An additional session with Tess will cost $44 and can be arranged with her directly via email: [email protected]
Our live session for October will be held at the end of the month to accommodate Theresa’s travel schedule. We will get together on Monday, October 28th at 4:30pm PST. All are welcome. The session will be held on ZOOM.
With Love,
Christina & Theresa
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We are back with part two of our eclipse series. We tackle the upcoming solar eclipse in Libra, as well as the Mercury cazimi and the ongoing conversation between Mars, Venus, and Saturn.
Look out for an email from me this week with October updates, including live session dates and reading discount codes for paid subscribers.
Wishing everyone a restful week. Take extra care of yourselves as the eclipse passes over.
With love,Christina & Theresa
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Happy Equinox, friends.
Theresa and I have a new episode out for you today. I hope it’s informative and helpful.
This evening, our friend Monique Matty will be holding a guided meditation for the Autumn Equinox at 5pm PST. Anyone is welcome. Join on Zoom.
With love,Christina & Theresa
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This week marks the first anniversary of the Skies & Currents podcast!
I’m astounded that an entire year has passed, and I am profoundly and sincerely grateful for the personal growth and opportunity this podcast has brought into my life. Sincerest thank you to every one of you who has listened and supported us along the way. Theresa and I never imagined we could grow and sustain this audience and community as quickly as we have, and we feel blessed to share our work with you.
In a beautiful moment of synchronicity, it just so happens that our one-year anniversary coincides with the release of a gorgeous new introduction to the podcast. We are incredibly grateful to Warpaint for allowing us to use their music in the show. Extra special thanks to Emily Kokal and Theresa Wayman for their friendship and long-time support of my astrology practice. They are among an early group of supporters whose encouragement and enthusiasm for my gifts gave me the courage to pursue astrology as a vocation, and it’s incredibly meaningful that we have the opportunity to thread their art into the fabric of our show. Thank you also to Jennylee Lindberg, Stella Mozgawa, Mia Kirby, and Cedric Lemoyne for making this happen.
Thank you also to our dear friend and editor extraordinaire, Kevin Klauber, for editing it together for us.
In the episode, we chat about the new eclipse series that opens with the lunar eclipse in Pisces this Tuesday, September 17th. We talk about what might be opening up for us in the Pisces-Virgo axis of our charts over the next 18 months, as well as tips for taking extra care of yourself through the double whammy of eclipse season conspiring with Mars in Cancer at the beginning of his retrograde cycle.
with love,
Christina & Theresa
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Happy Holiday weekend!
I don’t have much time to write today, but I wanted to get the new episode out to you all.
Tomorrow is the new moon in Virgo, and next week heralds a transition to markedly new skies. Theresa and I talk in detail about what to expect as we head into the Mars retrograde cycle. I hope it’s helpful!
Theresa and I will hold a live session for the Sun | Saturn opposition on Friday at 3:30 PM PST. All are welcome to join via Zoom.
More soon!
With Love,
Christina & Theresa
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The Jupiter-Saturn square is nearly upon us, and of all the noise happening in the skies right now, it’s the conversation between these two planets that’s setting the stage for what’s next.
In this episode, we talk a bit about why this moment feels so heavy, the nature of Jupiter-Saturn squares, and what Mercury might have to say about navigating the week ahead.
Today is the Mercury cazimi; this one feels a bit like entering into the eye of the storm. Wishing you all a brief window of quiet and clarity as Mercury passes into the heart of the Sun, preparing us for the negotiation to come.
With love,
Christina & Theresa
Skies of Grace Astrology
Inner Currents
Drinking from the Depth of Self
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Dear Ones,
We have arrived. August is arguably the most critical month of 2024, so strap in and prepare for the storm of activity ahead! Wishing everyone here big wins and clarity through the hurricane-force cosmic winds.
I hope the episode provides a clear and helpful outline of the weeks ahead. We talk a great deal about the activation of the Jupiter-Saturn cycle. It’s not the sexiest astrology, but the cycle between these two heavyweights is profoundly consequential for the state of the world and for defining our personal orientations towards and participation in the communities and cultures to which we belong.
A reminder that Theresa’s course, “Drinking from the Depths of Self,” begins in September. You can find detailed information here if you are interested in signing up or learning more.
With Love,
Christina & Theresa
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Dear Ones,
Today is an important day in the ongoing story of 2024. As Mars transits into Gemini, he activates his square with Saturn, as well as one of the most important configurations of this year: the Jupiter-Saturn square. Theresa and I spend most of this episode discussing what this means for the next six weeks. As Mars forces the conversation between these two heavyweights to the forefront, we can expect to encounter a surge of activity and circumstances weighted with importance and urgency, activating a deeper story about who we are in the world and our core values.
Tomorrow is my birthday, and Theresa and I are visiting a few close friends in Northern California. We won’t be recording a podcast next week, but we are offering two public meditations tomorrow that anyone is welcome to join via Zoom. Sign-up information below!
Meditations:
Sunday, July 21—
Tibetan Healing Chö with Paige Hetherington: Chö is a traditional Tibetan healing ceremony utilized for transformation of obstacles and cleansing spiritual consciousness. It combines sacred song, ritual instruments, and chanting to purify the five elements which compose the body and mind. It is renowned for its remarkable ability to access our deepest blockages and to harmonize patterns and imprints that are resistant to other therapies. Participants are invited to set intentions to direct its impact and simply relax while the ceremony takes place.
Chö is offered in the spirit of something referred to as Bodhicitta (enlightened mind). It means that the practice is expressed with the intention of benefiting the welfare of all sentient beings. Every time you participate you are making an offering to the collective, beyond individual interests. During times of increasing tension and upheaval, it is a wonderful way to not only care for ourselves but meet the persistant instability of the outer world. (1 PM PST)
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Longing for God: A monthly transmission/meditation to strengthen our connection to the Divine. (5 PM PST)
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A five to ten-minute recorded message describing a few blessings, challenges, and themes that may arise for you under this configuration.
If you would like to participate, send me a DM on Substack or an email ([email protected]) with your birth information.
With Love,
Christina & Theresa
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Dear ones,
Welcome back to another episode! We hope everyone enjoyed the new moon in Cancer last weekend and had a great start to the summer. We are in a bit of an ominous astrological window. Below are some brief words to frame my thinking about the next couple of weeks + DEATH MEDITATION & T i b e t a n C h ö SIGN UP INFORMATION!
In the ongoing story of 2024, July represents a critical juncture.
On July 20th, Mars enters Gemini, kicking off a busy six-week period that activates one of the most significant transits of the year: the Saturn/Jupiter square. As Mars forces the conversation between these two heavyweights to the forefront, we can expect to encounter a surge of activity and circumstances weighted with importance and urgency, activating a deeper story about who we are in the world and our core values.
In preparation for this significant period, the heavens have mounted a gauntlet of underworld challengers. Mercury, Venus, and the Sun all pass through the orb of Pluto as they move through the final degrees of Cancer into Leo. On July 15, Mars conjoins Uranus on the fixed star Algol, or as she is known in many Western traditions, the blinking eye of the slain Medusa. For most of us, it may be easy enough to numb out during this intense window and avoid the unease and pain of the underworld. It is a relatively quick, rapid-fire series of transits. But the discomfort is full of rich, fertile soil for growing new efforts. This combination of transits cracks open portals to the dark crevices of our lives and imaginations. What tools do we need to recover from the basement of our unconscious? What crucial parts of ourselves must we resuscitate and bring into consciousness to meet with agency this critical time ahead? Pluto is the Lord of the Underworld, and he always reminds us that death is never as far away as we’d like to believe. Resisting the inevitability of death increases our pain, but surrender brings clarity and the vitality of presence.
For many eons, human beings have looked upon the blinking light of Algol with dread and unease. As Mars and Uranus touch that ominous light early next week, they will unleash the volatile rage of the Gorgon, the unbounded pain and profound anger of those unjustly cut off from their power too soon.
This moment asks: What will you do with your power while you have it? How will you thread it through your numbered days? Meditating on these questions can gift the clarity and conviction needed for the pivotal weeks ahead.
If you want to dive deeper into these themes and questions, our dear friend Paige Hetherington will hold a guided death meditation on Sunday. Anyone is welcome to join on Zoom. You can REGISTER HERE.
We also discuss Paige’s ceremonial C h ö offerings at length in this episode. If anyone would like more information or to join the upcoming ceremony on July 21 during the second new moon in Capricorn, that registration form can be found HERE.
with love,
Christina & Theresa
Skies of Grace Astrology
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Dear Ones,
We’re back. Tess and I are here to tackle the astrology of July. It’s a doozy of a month—a mix of supportive and catastrophic astrology that will land differently for everyone. Wishing everyone here a hefty dose of the positive and tons of capacity to move through challenges with grace.
We will be holding a group session for the Cancer new moon on July 6th at 10 am on Zoom. All are welcome! Together, we will look at our relationship with the moon as our celestial mother figure, as well as our relationship with Gaia as our terrestrial mother figure. We will be joined by our dear friend Monique Matty, who has cultivated a profound devotional relationship with Gaia and has offered to guide us in a group meditation to explore our inherent connection with the earth.
Message me on Substack or email me at [email protected] for the Zoom link, if you would like to join.
With love,
Christina & Theresa
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Dear Ones,
How are the skies treating you? Theresa and I have a new episode for your beloved ears. Enjoy the week ahead and I hope everyone has a fun and insightful Mercury cazimi on Friday!
ICYMI, I am offering a new donation-based “pay what you can” reading to the Substack community. We chat about it in the new episode, and I am including the description + details about how to sign up below.
PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN: 12th House Readings
For the past three months, I have been testing and developing a technique based on the ancient concept of derivative houses. This technique is designed to provide insight into the nature of the unconscious (or less conscious) obstacles blocking the healthiest expression of any aspect of our lives. The method rests on the investigation of the 12th house, a place in our chart that the ancients referred to as “The House of Self-Undoing.” In its most challenging expression, the 12th house represents the beliefs, behaviors, and obstacles we unconsciously develop over a lifetime and frequently marshal to sabotage our own efforts. But, refracted through another perspective, this same house can represent paths of liberation—mechanisms for “undoing” layers of the ego that trap us in harmful modes of expression. My fixation on the 12th house originated from a desire to explore its relationship to spiritual practice. But somewhere along the path, I had the idea that perhaps we could look at the “derived” 12th house from any other house (or planet) in the chart to illuminate the unconscious obstacles to specific areas of life.
In application, I’ve found it to be a powerful tool. I have tested the concept in depth with a select group of friends and clients and have also found it enriching as an additional tool for birth chart analysis. I would love to explore it further with a larger pool of people. In the spirit of exploration, I am opening it up to all my Substack subscribers as a pay-what-you-can, donation-based reading. Here’s how it works: if you find yourself routinely troubled or stuck in any area of life and want to explore it further, send me a message through Substack describing the issue. I will send you a link to a calendar so we can set up a time to discuss it together through the lens of this technique. These readings take about 30 minutes. You can donate through Venmo or PayPal; the suggested donation amount is between 30 and 75 dollars, depending on your means. If you can’t afford to pay at all, that’s fine too. I hope this can be a helpful resource to anyone who feels called to participate. Please know that these readings demand some courage and willingness to engage in a process that might feel uncomfortably self-confronting. So take care to assess whether or not you feel emotionally resourced and up for the conversation. I can offer a deep well of grace and compassion, but I am not a mental health professional, so use discretion and take care of yourself first. Depending on how many people want to participate, I may spread the readings out over the next month or throughout the summer.
Oh and I am also offering 20% off all my readings for June (a Jupiter in Gemini special…) USE CODE: SKIES20 B o o k H e r e
With Love,
Christina & Theresa
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Friends,
How is everyone feeling? We’ve reached a major chapter break in the year, and I hope the predominant feeling is one of exhilaration as Jupiter opens up new pathways for communication and connection during his long-heralded ingress into Mercury’s excitable air domain.
In this episode, we talk at length about the square between Jupiter and Saturn in the context of the much larger cycle at play, which began in December of 2020. I am currently working on the June update, which I will send out in a separate email. I’ve been working on a new reading/offering that involves diving deep into a single area of life and bringing up everything the chart has to say about the unconscious obstacles that prevent us from accessing peace, ease, and satisfying progress in that area. It’s an offering I would like to extend to my subscribers first. I am in the midst of working out the format, but look out for more information in the aforementioned update.
Swani and I will hold a live session on Thursday, June 6th at 5 pm for the new moon in Gemini. So mark your calendars if you would like to attend, and look out for the Zoom link in the June updates.
Theresa is offering a new intensive, which we discuss at the end of this episode. You can find all the information here: Drinking from the Depths of the Self. This is a six-month-long, intensive deep dive into our personal stories, both wondrous and obstructive, to reclaim, discover, and nurture fuller evolutions of our authentic expression.
For more information about Inner Currents, as well as a calendar of all their public meditations and offerings, check out their website: www.innercurrents.com.
For more information about me and my practice or to book a reading, check out my website at www.skiesorgrace.com.
With love,
Christina & Theresa
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Dear Ones,
I hope this final week of Jupiter and Venus in Taurus brings each of you many sweet gifts and deep, embodied pleasure. This Thursday is the Venus and Jupiter conjunction, and I hope these two planets highlight a profound and fulfilling end to Jupiter’s long transit through Taurus.
In this episode, Tess and I look ahead to Jupiter’s year-long transit through Gemini, which begins on Saturday. We will certainly be discussing it in greater depth as the weeks progress and I am offering a special reading on the subject for anyone interested in a more personal look: Special Reading, Jupiter in Gemini.
As always, thanks to each of you for your support.
Christina & Theresa
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Dear ones,
We are back after a short break. I hope you all are faring well. In this episode, we chat about the ongoing vibes of Taurus season, the relationship between Venus and pleasure, avoiding determinism in astrology, and fighting for the life you want. We also discuss the Venus workshop we are holding next weekend.
Below, find a description of the workshop and a link to sign up if you’d like to attend!
With love,
Christina & Theresa
Venus Workshop: On Pleasure
Goddess of Love & Beauty. Queen of Heaven. Patron of the arts and ruler of all things sensual and pleasurable. Venus is known by many names: Isis, Ishtar, Innana, Aphrodite, Astarte, Shukra, the list goes on and on. Of all the planets in the sky, it is Venus—perhaps—we humans mythologize most fervently. We know her as both The Evening and The Morning Star. So brightly does she shine, she’s earned the honorific title of Light-Bringer. So profoundly does her absence move the human psyche, that distinct cultures across history have devised secretive cults and profound rituals to plumb the mysteries of her retrograde. And yet, in this age of widespread loneliness, numbingly cheap pleasures, and highly addictive, dopamine-hacking technologies, I sometimes wonder: Where is Venus in all of this?
If there were a conceptual canopy under which all matters of Venus might fall, I believe it would be “Pleasure.” To know and to seek pleasure is the path of Venus. For this, she is highly prized and revered amid the planetary pantheon. And yet, so frequently we find ourselves estranged from the Venusian realm and from the deep, innate engagement with pleasure that should be a straight shot within us. We find ourselves asking, at shockingly late stages of life, what do I really like? What brings me delight? We realize we’ve defaulted to ideas and definitions of pleasure wholly defined by people and by social structures entirely outside of ourselves.
When will I have what I want?
When people come to astrology, frequently it’s to pose a version of this question. But the more essential question—the one we often forget to ask– is much deeper:
Will we enjoy what we want?
Our culture will eagerly teach us what to desire. Sometimes it's our parents who fill in the blank at an early age. Sometimes it's our community. Occasionally it's media. Many faith traditions exist almost wholly to fill this yearning inside us. But what instruction, if any, do we receive on pleasure? And in the absence of that instruction, we are left with the assumption that our desire alone can guide us; that the feeling, the urge, the passion will cut a blazing path to the deep pleasure and fulfillment we seek. But the path between desire and pleasure is not as clear or direct as we are led to believe, and pleasure itself is not bound to any object or goal or process of striving. Pleasure is a force unto herself, and Venus is the celestial custodian of her secrets.
This is the first time Theresa and I will be offering this workshop, and it was born of an intention to make space for the sacred and essential processes of pleasure. Together we’ll look at the nature and quality of Venus as a planetary devi from many angles and traditions. We will plumb the depths of information the birth chart can offer about our relationship to Venus and we will use a variety of traditional and intuitive techniques to identify concrete and unconscious obstacles that block our fullest expression and experience of pleasure. The session will open with a guided meditation and space is limited to ensure that the work can be tailored to the group and there is ample space to share, learn, and grow in the safe container of our Venusian deep dive.
The workshop will be held live on Zoom on Saturday, May 18th at 10 AM PST. Attendees can register through the signup sheet provided and must provide their birth information in advance. There is a suggested donation of $20 to $30.
Zoom link will be provided upon registration!
Register for the workshop here: Link
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Dear Ones,
Today is the full moon in Scorpio, and we are back with a proper forecast for Taurus season. I’m happy to report that we are moving into very auspicious skies. Tess and I wanted to spend a whole episode breaking down the astrology of late April and May so you have a wealth of information to use for taking advantage of the season.
Love to you all,
Christina & Theresa
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